The Secret Realm of the Territory Chapter 24 The Mysterious Old Man
As much as I scoff at Green Rhino's actions, now is not the time to fight him.
I'm the leader here, so I'm naturally responsible for negotiating with the old man in front of me.
When I got closer, I found that there was a stone cushion about 40 centimeters high under the wall of the underground palace, so although the old man himself was not tall, because of this cushion, I had to look up to him a little.
I stepped forward, and I didn't think about how to speak for a while, so I had to follow the rules of the Jianghu people, and arched my hand: "This old man, thank you for opening the door for us, I don't know if you can give us a place to stay, and the contemptible people will be grateful, and they will have a generous gift." ”
But I regret saying this, generous gifts, all we have is money, but although money can make ghosts grind, but in the current environment, where can we spend money if we have it?
The old man was a little strange, since we came here, I found that he kept muttering something, and I had to pay attention to him closer, and then I heard that he was saying, "Come alive, come alive, come alive......"
There was a buzz in my head, and I took two straight steps back.
This scene is very similar to those horror movies, a group of travelers in front of the haunted house, there will be such an old man, he can't stop muttering some terrifying words in his mouth.
And once those people enter the haunted house, they will definitely die inside.
The old man's thin cheeks now somehow looked very eerie to me, and the castle tower, which had just been regarded as a lifesaver by everyone, was now unusually strange and terrifying. 、
The old man seemed to notice my movements, and suddenly cracked his mouth and smiled, which seemed to me to make him even more eerie.
He cleared his throat vigorously and muttered a few more words that I didn't hear.
Then, as if opening his voice, he babbled for a long time, and said to me, "Young man, scare you, right? Hahaha, scared, scared, scared......"
This time it wasn't just me who heard it, it was all of us.
Now it's good, everyone is nervous.
The old horse leaned into my ear and whispered, "I said Gensheng, this old man doesn't look normal, how can this still be echoed." ”
I coughed awkwardly twice and whispered, "I'll see if I have a few words with him." ”
"The ......"
But before I could finish speaking, the old man said to me with some eagerness: "I said, do you have anything to eat, what I am talking about is the kind of food that people eat, the kind of food that people eat, the kind of food that people eat, and the kind of food that people eat." ”
The more he spoke, the quieter his voice became, and I reached out to interrupt his automatic response, and said in my heart, "What's the matter with you, old man, how can you return what people eat, can we still bring things that are not eaten by people?"
I pulled an unopened compressed biscuit from my backpack and handed it over.
The old man went crazy, snatched the compressed biscuit, put it in his mouth and nibbled on it.
It just seemed that he had found out that this was packaged, smiled awkwardly, and then desperately began to tear the bag of compressed biscuits with his teeth.
I really wanted to remind him that this thing actually had a gap and was easy to tear open, but seeing his fanatical expression, I had to swallow the words back into my stomach.
The old horse said in my ear again: "I said Gensheng, or let's run, I think this old man is really wrong, you see that the bag has cut his mouth, and he doesn't bleed, I think he is a zongzi...... No, zongzi
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How can you speak......"
As he spoke, he wrapped himself in.
"This old man is definitely not a zongzi, eighty percent of it is mentally problematic, right......?"
"Then you say that he is here alone, what does he live on, this is too strange, right?"
"It's really weird......"
I touched my chin and looked at the seemingly harmless old man in front of me.
His eating appearance is extremely ugly, and it is not too much to describe it as gobbling up, and he eats extremely seriously, and no scum falls off.
"It's so delicious, it's so good, it's finally eaten what people eat, what people eat, what people eat."
He seemed to enjoy talking, muttering indistinctly as he ate.
It's just that this is a compressed biscuit, and if he eats it this way, I'm afraid he's going to choke to death......
As I expected, after a while, the old man's face turned purple from choking on the compressed biscuits because they were too dry, and he stretched out his hand to ask us for water.
I reluctantly handed my kettle out, and the old man raised his head and drank it, and looking at his sloppy appearance, I decided that I would say nothing about this kettle.
After a while, the old man finished eating the compressed biscuit in his hand and said to me, "Is there anything else?" ”
I waved my hand and said, "Yes, yes, but I'll give it to you later, you can't eat more of this thing, and after the stomach is blistered, it will be very full, and if you eat it again, I'm afraid it will be broken." ”
I was a little frightened after saying this, after all, this old man didn't look like a civilized person, and I was really afraid that this kindness would be misunderstood by him.
But what I didn't expect was that the old man unexpectedly didn't ask me to eat, he said: "I understand, I understand, don't stand here, come in with me, there may be big scorpions outside for a while, wake up, wake up, wake up, and there are a lot of scorpions, a lot of them." ”
I watched him feel much better after he was full, which made him look a little crazy.
But now, we had to follow him in, because it was too dangerous outside, and I didn't want to face those huge monsters again.
I suddenly remembered the scorpions that had died outside, and asked, "This senior, did you kill the scorpions that fought with us outside just now?" ”
"Didn't you kill you? You must have killed you, you must have died...... Let's go, the sand is moving again, the scorpions are waking up, they are waking up, they are waking up......"
The old man turned around and walked away, and as he walked, he didn't know what he was muttering, and I didn't care about it so much.
We hurriedly jumped on the cushion and suddenly a familiar smell entered my nostrils, and I sucked hard a few times, trying to remember, but I couldn't remember where I smelled it anyway.
Tony suddenly crouched down, tapped his hand on the cushioned stone, then put it in front of his eyes to look at it, sniffed it again, and said to me, "It's insect repellent powder." ”
"Insect repellent ......"
I repeated the word, and suddenly my body froze, and I finally realized why the smell was so familiar, and I asked Tony in disbelief, "You mean?" ”
Tony nodded and said, "That's right, it's the same as the one in the General's Mausoleum." ”
I exclaimed, "Impossible! These two places are almost half a territory apart! ”
Tony said thoughtfully, "We think it's a little incredible, but that's the way it is, and we won't admit it." ”
I
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nodded and said: "I was still thinking just now, there are so many scorpions here, why this old man can stand at the door so confidently and wait for us, maybe it is because of this insect repellent powder that these scorpions dare not approach." ”
"But this insect repellent powder, whether in terms of ingredients or formula, is like a secret recipe that is not passed on, there is no reason why it will spread all over the country, is it from one place to another? So who is in front and who is behind here? Southern Sichuan and Territory...... Is there any connection? ”
Lao Ma listened carefully to the conversation between me and Tony, and when he saw that we were both silent, he suddenly said impatiently, "Then we can't get in?" ”
I know he's been apprehensive since the sniper shot, and he's even more irritated to hear us talk about some strange things here.
"Come in!" I said categorically, "Didn't you just say that I was already mentioned?" Now we have no way back. But I said, old horse, what the hell is going on with you, why did you suddenly become so flustered. ”
"Me? Have it? Who is so flustered! Walk! Get in! Lao Tzu walked ahead. ”
We followed the old man into the gate, and Captain Yu of the Royal Highness was responsible for reclosing the gate.
The old man seemed to be able to see at night, but we couldn't, and we still had to borrow light to see clearly.
Because several flashlights were lost in the battle just now, and now there are only five in stock, and life is suddenly tight.
We don't know how long we'll need to stay in the dark in the future, and we don't have extra batteries, so we can only share a flashlight very frugally.
Although the light was dim, I could tell that it was just a very tall and spacious corridor, made of stone blocks of uniform size, just like the outside.
Not far ahead, there is a hole about two meters high in each of the two walls, which seems to lead to the top of the city wall.
The old horse walked in the front, just swept by with a flashlight.
But who knew that San'er suddenly stopped, pulled out the short knife pinned to his waist, and shouted with a solemn expression: "There is an ambush!" ”
I cursed in my heart, and my heart was really strangers who couldn't easily believe it, it seemed that this time it was put on the table.
San'er wouldn't joke about this kind of thing, and when we heard San'er's shout, we also took out our weapons one after another and began to keep a certain distance from the old man.
The old horse's flashlight kept flickering in front of me, and as the pillar of light swept through the two holes, I seemed to notice a figure flashing by.
Although it was only for a moment, I was extremely impressed by the movement of the figure.
Just like the dried corpses out there!
Then, as if to confirm my suspicions, figures continued to pop out of the mouth of the cave, and in a few moments more than thirty dried corpses appeared, swaying towards us.
I shouted, "You old man, what good have you done to us if you have done us so much to eat?" ”
Zhang Genhuo suddenly said: "Brother, that old man just said that he hadn't eaten anything eaten by people for a long time, I think he may be eating people, he is the leader of these dried corpses." He eats too many people, and occasionally likes to change the taste, so he loves to eat our compressed biscuits! ”
Zhang Genhuo's brain has always been very big, but now that he said this, I couldn't scold him as usual.
Because these words sounded very reasonable at this time, I actually felt very reasonable, and I didn't feel cold.
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